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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by jhasse on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:01PM (#17801618)
Yes, because Snap doesn't support different repositories easily and everything atm is based on Ubuntu base-images. Also the license is GPL+CLA allowing Canonical to relicense it under a proprietary license. Furthermore they require AppArmore for some features which some distros can't use (it isn't part of the mainline kernel AFAIK).
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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by jhasse on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:05PM (#17801667)
Okay I was wrong: AppArmor is part of the mainline Linux kernel. I think it were some Ubuntu-specific patches then which were required for some of the sandbox features. I will try to find where I read it again.
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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by privateSFacct on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:39AM (#17816343)
Thanks for the follow-up and details - I wasn't aware of all this.
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